Electricity Producing Toilet – Benkatine Turbine Uses Potty Power

(TrendHunter.com) Currently we burn wood, coal, and natural gas to produce electricity. We also harness the power of falling water in hydroelectric power plants and capture the energy of rising water with wave-converting buoys. All ingenious ideas, but they’re expensive and wasteful.

Wouldn’t it be nice to power th…

Billboards out of Bottles – Carlsberg Ad Promotes New Bottles

(TrendHunter.com) Carlsberg has managed to create some pretty fantastic ads; we’ve featured several on Trend Hunter, and all are ultra creative.

For their latest billboard ads in Belgium, they’ve created signs out the brand’s real beer bottles making for some ferociously green advertisement! It was created to promo…

Crap-vertising for Shock Movies – Canadian Men in Diapers (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) This very clever parody ad would convince you that Canadian men love their diapers – until the end of the commercials and you find out the need the diapers so they can watch the all horror channel, Scream TV. Fun kiddie music, men frolicking in diapers, what could be more fun? The commercial was pro…

Controversial TV Spot Is 2007’s Best TV Ad – The Last Supper (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Sex and violence are popular methods to catch attention in advertising. But you can make other sorts of controversial ads, like this ad for Siminn, an Icelandic phone company. They are changing history. And the history they chose to change, is Jesus’ last supper.

The ad was chosen the best ad of t…

You on a Times Square Billboard – I in the Sky Public Art Project (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Imagine seeing yourself on a billboard in Times Square, lit up on one of the most famous streets of the world. You don’t have to be a model or a celebrity for it to be possible anymore!

Thanks to “I in the Sky,” a new public art project, anyone can step inside a designated photo booth to have their…

St. Patrick’s Day Viral – Irish Spring Body Wash

(TrendHunter.com) Irish Spring Body Wash is using St. Patrick’s Day as an excuse to launch a silly viral campaign.

Similar to Elf Yourself, Santa Swing and Move Your Lederhos’n, the campaign lets users upload their own photo. They get to select from a variety of facial accessories like mustaches and pipes, head pie…

Domestic Violence Ads – City of Hope (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The United Arab Emirates has been producing some very creative ads recently and seems to be claiming a spot in the competitive world of advertising. These new City of Hope ads by TBWARAAD Abu Dhabi ad agency are a good example. City of Hope assists women facing domestic violence, a social concern w…

Tranquil Spanish Subway Ad – Metro Madrid (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) “There is a place in Madrid where you can move without limits.”

That’s the tag line that goes along with this ad campaign for the Madrid Subway. The line public transit line produced several TV spots, including the one featured above. The vivid imagery will give you a good feel from the peace that…

Fun Sony Campaign – Store The Impossible (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The ad campaign for Sony Micro Vault is absolutely one of my favorites of late: Funny, creative, smart, and visually pleasing. Most importantly, unlike most ads these days, it showcases the product and its features. The creative force at Promoseven advertising agency in Dubai came up with this smar…

Design Your Own Phone – The OpenMoko Neo1973

(TrendHunter.com) OpenMoko is an unconventional type of company. Just like the zzzPhone, the company lets their customers engage in the design process.

They describe themselves thus on their website, “Our company is unconventional, we openly share our roadmap. And your participation, in terms of actual code, hardwa…

Connecting Dead & Alive Icons – Converse Centennial ‘Connectivity’ (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) As a celebration of 100 years in the footwear business Converse is launching a year-long global centennial “Connectivity” campaign. The campaign pairs up legendary dead icons across the worlds of music, art, sports and fashion, with emerging (and alive) ones. The sneaker company features “cul…

Dubai Again At Forefront of Lavish Design – The Wave Tower (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Wave Tower is the newest high rise building to be built in the city that has too much money. A-cero Architects are incorporating the waves of the oceanfront property into the overall design of the place.

It is supposed to appear as if it is floating and the gently rolling bridge connects it to…

Paranormal Social Networking – Steven Spielberg’s New Site

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve seen a few celebrities start their own blogs and social networking sites, and now Steven Spielberg introduces the oddest of the bunch.

The uber famous movie producer has plans to launch a social networking site devoted to extraterrestrials and the paranormal. Hopefully the intention behind it…

Louis Vuitton Journeys Campaign – Celeb Shots by Annie Leibowitz (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Louis Vuitton has teamed with fashion photographer Annie Liebowitz to create a series of new ads, the latest of which features Keith Richards.

The ad, created by Ogilvy & Mather, was launched today. It features the Rolling Stone strumming on his guitar in a posh New York City hotel. By his side is…

Lamborghini Touch-Screen Phone – ZX1 Lamborghini PDA by Asus

(TrendHunter.com) Italian auto manufacturer Lamborghini is releasing their own touch-screen phone, which is speculated to look and act very similar to the Apple iPhone.

The ZX1 Lamborghini PDA phone will be made by ASUS who will unveil the luxury gadget in Germany later this month at the CeBit tech show.

“The hig…

Artistic Advertising – Hotel Ads Imitate Renaissance Masters (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Renaissance Hotels in Rome, taking advantage of its name, has put out an advertising campaign on the basis of Renaissance paintings. “The Birth of Venus”, a work of art by Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, is recreated by a model standing by a pool and been catered to by three assistants. In…

DNA Drool Detection – 23andMe Personal Genome Service (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) You probably leave samples on the sidewalk all the time, but send a sample of spit (and $1,000) to 23andMe Personal Genome Service you might get more than you bargained for. Using sophisticated DNA Drool detection instrumentation to unscramble your genetic codification, your results are then posted …

Tongues, Fingers & Eyeballs to Sell Pop – Coke Zero Ads in English (Update) (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Coke put on a wild campaign in Brazil to promote Coke Zero, but getting people to pierce their tongues with the Coca-Cola brand is a little bit much for the rest of the world.

Instead, this TV spot is a little quirky, but it’ll grab your attention when channel surfing. We featured it last week, bu…

Tom Ford’s Controversial Ads Part III – Naughty Menswear Ad

(TrendHunter.com) That dirty-minded Tom Ford has released yet another risque ad. The studly young fashion designer has released a series of controversial ads which people either love or hate, all of them very, very sexy.

In his most recent menswear ad, a young gentleman clad in a white suit appears to yelp in pain a…

The Battle of Microcars Accelerates – Kia Soul (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) In the microcar class there are going to be two giants. Yes like jumbo shrimp. The Kia Soul and the Smart Fortwo will be going after the same market. The soul looks taller than the Mini Cooper with a flat room and sloping window the profile is definitely more sporty than the Fortwo. It will have a 2…